Bringing technologists together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS

The AWS Summit Santa Clara is a free event designed to bring together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Summits are held in major cities around the world and attract technologists from multiple industries, segments, and learning levels who want to learn how AWS can help them innovate with speed and deliver services with scale, flexibility, and reliability.

2018 Bay Area Keynote

Keynote

Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for driving the company's customer-centric technology vision.

As one of the forces behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.

Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University, where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Dr. Matt Wood, GM, Artificial Intelligence, is part of the technical leadership team at Amazon Web Services, pulling from over two decades of expertise in distributed systems, architecture, web-scale analytics, big data, machine learning and high performance computing to help customers bring their ideas to life through technology. After medical school, Dr. Wood completed his PhD in machine learning and bioinformatics, joined Cornell as a research fellow, and contributed to the next generation DNA sequencing platform at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Since joining Amazon Web Services in early 2010, he has played a role in introducing many significant new features and services to customers on the AWS Cloud, including Amazon SageMaker and AWS DeepLens.

Featured Topics

Choose from 45+ technical learning opportunities ranging from introductions to deep dives and includes small group hands-on workshops, lecture-style sessions, and open mic white boarding chalk talks. Topics will cover but are not limited to Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Serverless, Compute, Databases, Security & Compliance, Enterprise Transformation, and more.

Machine learning

Hybrid cloud

Database migration

Security

The world’s first global autonomous racing league, open to anyone

Race for prizes, glory, and a chance to advance to the AWS DeepRacer Grand Finale at AWS re:Invent 2019 to compete for the coveted AWS DeepRacer Championship Cup. Build and train a reinforcement learning model at a workshop, or bring one you have trained at home. You can then put your model to the test and compete on the track in the AWS Summit Expo. Start your engines, the race is on!

Why Attend?

Experience a free day of learning and networking with AWS, our Partners, our Customers, and other attendees. Learn by attending technical sessions, workshops, and chalk talks. Visit the Expo to speak with our cloud technology providers and consultants who can help you get the most out of your AWS services. Stop by the AWS Booth to chat with AWS experts and get answers to your questions.

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